Investigating the Relationship between Cyberspace Dependence, Emotional Intelligence and Subjective Addiction among High School Students in Bushehr City

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between cybercrime, emotional intelligence and subjective addiction among high school students in Bushehr.

The method of this research is descriptive correlational. The statistical population of the present study consists of 1099 high school students in Bushehr. The sample size of this study is 258 students of high schools of Bushehr city, which according to the Cochran sample size formula was obtained through multi-stage cluster sampling. The data gathering tool in this research was Yang Cyberspace Detection Questionnaire (2015), Bradbury and Graves' Emotional Intelligence (2016) and a researcher-made mental addiction inventory.

The results showed that dependence on cyberspace and emotional intelligence are the best predictors of the dependent variable, mental addiction among high school students in Bushehr. There is a direct and meaningful relationship between the dependence on cyberspace and emotional intelligence among high school students in Bushehr. There is a strong and direct relationship between the dependence on cyberspace and subjective addiction among secondary school students in Bushehr. There is a positive and significant relationship between emotional intelligence and subjective addiction among high school students in Bushehr. In terms of cybernetics, emotional intelligence and mental addiction between male and female students are not significantly different